Please Don't Play Dating Games With Strangers

[Complete. 130,000-word manuscript. Updated on schedule every day. No hiatuses or rushed ending.] During a short holiday, her coworkers drag Ying Huanhuan along to a team-building event, forcing her to try a wildly popular “immersive romance VR” game. Other players' openings: gorgeous character models, sweet romantic encounters, and moonlit romance. Her opening: an invasive questionnaire like a household registration check, an ugly, roughly carved piece of wood, and a faceless puppet-maker. As she watches the hands on the screen dress the ugly puppet, apply essential oils to it, and share its bed day and night, Ying Huanhuan expressionlessly types an answer into the questionnaire: “When your parents are sacrificed to heaven, your powers know no bounds.” She thinks it's just a horror game with a bizarre aesthetic. Until one day, she becomes that immobile wooden puppet herself. The man with no visible face gently strokes her wooden body in the dim candlelight. His voice is tender yet obsessive: “Wife, you're finally awake.” Ying Huanhuan: “...Thanks, but no thanks. How long does it take to file for divorce under the Heavenly Dao's procedures?” This is the story of a strictly neutral science student who only wants to get off work and is obsessed with DND tabletop role-playing, but accidentally winds up in an Eastern fantasy sentinel-guide world. Confronted with a hypocritical princess, a dysfunctional team, and a green-tea husband who keeps playing the victim around her, she is forced to pull out iron caltrops and quicklime, using physical tactics to scrape by and survive. Reading guide: Light comedy, ridiculous tactical schemes, married first and in love later, sweet 1v1 romance, strong male and female leads in both the physical and psychological sense.